n. the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life

Etymologies

alive +‎ -ness (Wiktionary)

Examples

The sense of being fully alive is born of this vividness, and when a person has everything he expects to get in life, and cannot change anything lest the whole structure collapse, the kind of aliveness which is generated from within dies and his apparently perfect world becomes a nightmare.

I made the point that my passion and The Eldering Institute® is about transforming our culture's view of aging and teaching people that we can change how we relate to the future -- and, as a consequence, we can have more choices, more possibility and more 'aliveness' than what most people can expect as they grow older.

Unlike cold storage, which Dr. Guarrera describes as a static technique, HMP dynamically simulates "aliveness" by providing a continuous flow of oxygen and key nutrients to the liver while diluting and removing toxins and waste products.

Despite this disappointment, the bug had bitten, and I was drawn to continue to photograph - I guess, in search of the kind of aliveness of interaction with the world that I started to feel through taking those early pictures.